Cooperating to Meet Food Safety Challenges

The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) has been encouraging state food safety regulatory agencies to establish, or provide support for, regularly scheduled food safety task force meetings. ORA, the lead office for all FDA field activities, coordinates the program aspects of FDA’s contracts with state and local counterpart agencies and FDA’s emergency preparedness and civil defense programs.

The purpose of these meetings is to discuss and resolve issues at the state …